Desmond Doss Conscientious Objector Author:Frances M. Doss HIS BRAVERY IS LEGENDARY . . . HIS STORY IS TIMELESS — Infantry men who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon owed their lives to him. In the midst of a fierce firefight on Okinawa that felled approximately seventy-five men from the 1st Battalion, Private Desmond Doss refused to seek cover an... more »d carried his stricken comrades to safety one by one. This and other heroic acts earned him the highest honor America could bestow on one of her soldiers--the Medal of Honor.
But his story doesn't end in 1945. There have been many other battles and victories for the man known as "the unlikeliest hero," and this book tells those stories.
From an accident-prone childhood to World War ll gallantry, to the tragic loss of his first wife, Dorothy, and his battles with deafness and cancer, Desmond Doss lived a life of unsurpassed devotion--devotion to his country, his convictions, and his God.« less